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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (14 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department is very recently in receipt of an application for capital funding, under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme, from the school in question. The purpose of the ASA scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream and special education classroom accommodation is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year and where the need...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (14 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 281 to 284, inclusive, together. Tá an Roinn Oideachais lántiomanta a ndualgais reachtúla faoi Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (leasú) 2021 a chomhlíonadh. Tá mo Roinnse ag obair chun a chinnitiú go gcuirfear ar a laghad 20% d’fhógraíocht ar bith ar fáil i nGaeilge agus go n-úsáidfear ar a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (14 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: This year my Department published “Forbairt 2023 Annual Statement of Priorities”, a statement of priority actions to be delivered in 2023 that elaborates upon and develops the strategic actions set out in the Statement of Strategy 2021-2023, which sets out the vision, mission and strategic goals that guides the Department’s work programme for the 2021-2023 period. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (14 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: I was delighted to launch together with the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, Ossian Smyth the Solar for Schools scheme . It will allow up to 4,000 schools nationwide to get solar PV panels to reduce their energy bills and their carbon emissions. This ties in with the strong ethos of environmental awareness and climate sustainability among our...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (14 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: Since 2020 we have invested in the region of €3.5 billion in our schools throughout the country, involving the completion of over 690 school building projects with construction currently underway at approximately 300 other projects. School building projects at construction involve an overall State investment of over €1.2 billion. There are also over 200 modular accommodation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (14 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: Temporary prefab accommodation in schools may be rented or purchased and funded by the Department or by the school authority itself, with or without Department sanction. As the Deputy will appreciate, within the context of a rapidly increasing school population combined with arriving Ukrainian children, my Department's priority is to ensure that every child has access to a physical school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (14 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: Ensuring that every child's experience in school is positive and that they have qualified, engaged teachers available to support them in their learning is a priority area of action for the Government. The vast majority of sanctioned teacher positions are filled. The rate of resignation and retirement is very low by any standard and is consistent with previous years. The recruitment and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (14 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: My Department has provided reference to guidelines for school fencing in its School Design Guidelines which are available on the Department's website. I am including an extract from the guidance documents below in response to the Deputy's query. As can be seen, there is provision for flexibility in the design of the boundary fencing, relative to the specific circumstances of the school....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2022/23 school year, over 149,000 children, including over 18,000 children with special educational needs, were transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. In addition, school transport scheme services are being...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (14 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: The requested information is being compiled by the Department and will be released as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (14 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy may be aware, for school planning purposes, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and uses a Geographical Information System (or GIS) to anticipate school place demand. Information from a range of sources, including Child Benefit Data, school enrolment data and information on residential development activity is used for this purpose. In addition,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: The project to which the Deputy refers, was approved a project under my Department’s Additional School Accommodation scheme for the provision of 3 general classrooms, 1 textiles room, 1 science lab/prep area, 1 graphics room, 1 art room, 1 art project store, and 2 classroom SEN base. The project has been devolved for delivery to the school authority. Design team has been appointed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: As you may be aware, the purpose of the Summer Works Scheme (SWS) is to enable individual school authorities to undertake small-scale building works on a devolved basis and, ideally, can be carried out during the summer months or at other times that avoid disrupting the operation of the school. The SWS operates on a multi-annual basis for categories of works such as roof works, window...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: It is open to a school to use their capitation grant or their minor work grant to replace floor coverings at the school. The capitation grant is paid to primary and voluntary secondary schools. It is based on the number of recognised pupils enrolled in the schools. Capitation grants are paid at the applicable rate at the time the grant is issued. Capitation funding is intended to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: I can confirm to the Deputy that the school referred to has been approved for a project under my Department's Additional Accommodation Scheme to provide a 3 classroom SEN base. This project has been devolved for delivery to the school authority and officials in my Department await submission of the Stage 1 report from the school design team. Once this has been received it will be reviewed by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: The purpose of the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) is to provide for unforeseen emergencies that impact on school buildings. It does so by ensuring the availability of funding for urgent works to those schools that are in need of resources as a result of an emergency situation. An emergency is a situation which poses an immediate risk to health, life, property or the environment, which is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: The school to which the Deputy refers, was approved a project under my Department’s Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme for a 2 classroom SEN base. The project is devolved for delivery to the school authority. The review by my Department’s professional and technical team of the stage report is nearing completion and the recommendations will be shared with the school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: The large scale capital project at the school referred to by the Deputy is at Architectural Planning Stage 4 – Construction. The project brief is for a new 24 classroom school with 2 classrooms for children with special educational needs and all ancillary site works. The project commenced on site in September 2022 and has an estimated completion date of Q3 2024.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Properties (18 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: The former Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) Rathmines college premises is in the ownership of my Department. Currently Harcourt Terrace Educate Together National School are using the property under an arrangement with my Department and this will continue. This building was identified as a temporary location for the school pending the development of their permanent school. For the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (18 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that the copies of the requested payslips have been issued to the teacher concerned. Payslips can be accessed online at any time by availing of the Digital Postbox Service. Details on how to access the service are available on my Department's website at gov.ie - Payroll services for teaching, non-teaching and retired staff on Department of Education payrolls...